3 Use Cases for Hybrid Cloud

Despite steady adoption of cloud in the enterprise, many
companies still continue to work in fits and starts when moving
to the cloud from traditional architectures. There are valid IT
and business reasons for organizations still opting for
applications on hardware owned and managed in-house. One
reason is many organizations are finding it difficult to virtualize
workloads that aren’t ready to leave physical data centres and
non-virtualized infrastructure just yet. Often, these are mission-
critical applications that simply can’t compromise on performance.
Additionally, they still have large investments in technology,
people and processes that are hard to walk away from.

Fortunately, businesses can still advance their cloud
strategy by integrating physical infrastructure with a
virtual cloud platform to attain a “HYBRID CLOUD
STRATEGY” with enterprise-class managed application
services. There are a number of situations where
businesses can leverage traditional physical infrastructure
and virtual cloud services in a hybrid cloud
environment that enable application and data mobility,
scale and agility, while retaining control of their existing
architecture.
Let’s dig in three hybrid cloud use cases to consider:

Database Clusters:
Virtual cloud services involve a database cluster, running
on bare-metal servers in a hosted data centre, while the
web/application tier typically utilizes cloud elements. By
bridging a large bare-metal database with applications
running in the cloud, enterprises can gain the advantages
of big iron performance with the cloud’s benefits of agility,
rapid deployment, scalability and consumption-based billing.

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery:
The flexibility of the cloud makes it easier for enterprises to
test replication of dedicated on-premises systems to a virtual
environment, giving them greater confidence that the solution
will work as planned should a crisis occur. This is in contrast
to the state of many existing BCDR efforts; there’s too much
fear that conducting failover tests across physical sites will
disrupt operations, so they’re rarely done. For many
businesses in the mid-market, cost is often a prohibitive factor
to establishing a robust BCDR strategy. While cloud financial
models do vary across providers, “cold” environments as would
be typical for many DR scenarios, can commonly be
maintained only for the cost of replication and storage. This
is a real game changer enabling many organizations to
develop a viable BCDR strategy previously thought impossible.

Scaling Issues:
A business may look to the cloud for a certain type of
scaling, such as adding more app servers for workload
bursts, but struggle with limited time and resources to
redesign the whole application for the cloud. By moving
certain application tiers from the on-premises infrastructure to
the cloud, businesses can achieve a seamless physical-to-
cloud hybrid connection, which allows them to address
scaling issues without forcing fast, wholesale redesigns for
which they may not be prepared.

Hybrid cloud offers organizations the best of both worlds. It
enables them to leverage the benefits of both the physical
and virtual worlds to create an integrated infrastructure
that provides the scalability and rapid provisioning needed
to be successful in today’s marketplace.

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